Re: [PHP-DEV] magic_quotes and the question of BC

2008-02-24 Thread Philip Olson
On Feb 8, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Pierre Joye wrote: On Feb 8, 2008 5:38 PM, Gregory Beaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frankly, I don't see why there is any vote whatsoever. It's plain stupid to consider removing them when a fully backwards-compatible solution exists that has no performance penalt

Re: [PHP-DEV] magic_quotes and the question of BC

2008-02-11 Thread Gregory Beaver
Jani Taskinen wrote: > If those application are written properly, they also have to check for > the existance of the functions even with current PHP version since it is > possible to disable them altogether. So it shouldn't matter if they're > removed for them.. ;) It's possible to disable any fun

Re: [PHP-DEV] magic_quotes and the question of BC

2008-02-11 Thread Tomas Kuliavas
> If those application are written properly, they also have to check for > the existance of the functions even with current PHP version since it is > possible to disable them altogether. So it shouldn't matter if they're > removed for them.. ;) Function is standard for PHP4-5. get_magic_quotes_gpc

Re: [PHP-DEV] magic_quotes and the question of BC

2008-02-11 Thread Jani Taskinen
If those application are written properly, they also have to check for the existance of the functions even with current PHP version since it is possible to disable them altogether. So it shouldn't matter if they're removed for them.. ;) --Jani On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 10:38 -0600, Gregory Beaver w

Re: [PHP-DEV] magic_quotes and the question of BC

2008-02-08 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
On 08.02.2008, at 17:46, Pierre Joye wrote: On Feb 8, 2008 5:38 PM, Gregory Beaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frankly, I don't see why there is any vote whatsoever. It's plain stupid to consider removing them when a fully backwards-compatible solution exists that has no performance penalty,

Re: [PHP-DEV] magic_quotes and the question of BC

2008-02-08 Thread Pierre Joye
On Feb 8, 2008 5:38 PM, Gregory Beaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frankly, I don't see why there is any vote whatsoever. It's plain > stupid to consider removing them when a fully backwards-compatible > solution exists that has no performance penalty, no security penalty, > and in fact no penal

[PHP-DEV] magic_quotes and the question of BC

2008-02-08 Thread Gregory Beaver
Hello all, Those of you who are saying things like "forget the idiots using magic_quotes" need to understand more clearly what is being proposed. NOBODY is proposing keeping magic_quotes. As of PHP 5.3 and earlier, all applications worth an ounce of anything must check for and handle magic_quotes